Okay. Okay. Listen. Okay. Look. Listen. Look. Okay. Listen.

All that stuff? About Salazar Slytherin? Abey had been listening and watching and maybe actually staring with his mouth hanging open slightly actually, because he couldn't recall ever experiencing such anger in so many people and all at once. And also, he didn't understand it, all that stuff about Slytherins needing to distancing themselves from actual Mr. Slytherin. As far as he knew, Abey's cousins, and also his aunts, had been proud Slytherins. And actually he had never heard of all that........ business......... either. It was sort of... well, it was sort of scary and surprising actually. But also, he didn't think it sounded like real life at all. Perhaps the prefect, who had (to Abey's ABSOLUTE SHOCK) walked out of class, was mistaken. After all, she hadn't known Mr. Slytherin personally, so maybe it was just rumours that she believed. Except... Professor LadyNewton was confirming the evil intentions thing. So... um... well. Huh. Maybe he needed to go bother Rula or Junia about all this. Actually.

Even SO, Abey... was feeling a little bit stupid actually, because so many people in here seemed to know all about all of that stuff - enough to argue about it, and here he was, a pureblood and everything even, not knowing any of it.

More reasons to hate History of Magic, actually. It made him feel stupid. Perhaps even more stupid than he actually was. Though that was probably difficult.

And speaking of DIFFICULT, it was time for the activity apparently, an activity that made Abey groaned just a little bit maybe. Because actually he had thought all about this kind of thing before, about what a fifth house might be, and eventually decided that it was too difficult to think of something completely new, but now he HAD to, and then he had to write it all down. Couldn't he just do the drawing thing?

... Actually yes. Abey was going to start with the crest. And maybe actually only do the crest and oops accidentally run out of time before he could do any writing. Good idea. Cool.

So, with that plan in mind, Abey got out his parchment from his bag (because obviously he hadn't been taking notes actually) and one of his drawing pencils. Now he only needed to think of something to draw, and so Abey looked around at the others in the classroom, and then down at the front of his school robes, at the Gryffindor crest that was attached to them. Yeeeeeeees.

He got to work, carefully drawing out the same 'shield' type shape that made up the Gryffindor crest, and then dividing it into four with one vertical line down the middle, and a horizontal line across the other middle, but using very light pencil strokes. The reason for this was that actually he was going to draw an animal - a house mascot - in the middle, which would be on top of the lines, but he hadn't decided exactly what yet actually.

Next came all the 'frilly bits' around the outside, which was actually the helmet from a suit of armour that sat on top of the shield, like on the Gryffindor one, and a banner underneath which he left blank, and the fiddly swirly feathery type shapes on the sides and some of the top. So far, it looked exactly like all the Hogwarts crests, except with no colours, no mascot, and no house name.

Still trying to put off the writing part, Abey next started to wrack his brains for an animal to draw there in the middle. An interesting one that wasn't too much like the ones that were already house mascots.

Although, the two cousins did spend time together at school, they had their own entire set of friends, and everything. Kat knew that Liv had her own things going on as did she. She returned the smile, and nodded. Her blue eyes glanced over a Kitty for a second, before turning back to Liv. "Yeah." Would hate for them to be the next Salazar Slytherin...

In the middle, She tried to think of some of the characteristics that they shared, the ones between too exclusive and not too fuzzy. "A happy medium...Independent, and open-minded. I like those two. I think we are both of those." They needed a few more traits.

Looking at what Liv had written down, on the paper. the colors. Those were nice and went really good together. So all they new more traits, house name,crest and mascot.

Well it seemed Kane hadn't listened to her first thoughts at all, but did she really care that much to correct him? She liked how excited he seemed about it too. So an arts house, well like she said she figured other people already thought about it, but why not. Maybe if man people suggested it maybe, just maybe they could actually have it happen. Not the house, but getting programs for the students who would like it.


"So the house would be for artistic people. Drawing, painting, acting, singing, any form of art or do you think it should be more specific?" If they started being more specific then they might need more than one house. "What do you think we should call the house?" Did he have a good name or would he like to name it after himself?

Maybe people would have expected her to use snails for her mascot but even though Char loved them, the Flying Fish just made more sense in relation to the other houses. And that was sort of her goal with this assignment, she wanted to pick out a house that made sense in relation to the rest, so that it would fit in and not seem strange or out of place.

So flying fishes..... maybe white and silver? Except Slytherins had silver... ummm.... maybe white and some kind of blue like the ocean? An ocean kind of colour? Char started testing colours out to see what she liked.

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WHITE AND TEAL
WHITE AND OCEAN BLUE
WHITE AND PALE BLUE
WHITE AND SILVER BLUE

The teal and white was too close to Slytherin, and the Ocean Blue and white felt vaguely ravenclaw even though there wasn't any bronze in sight, so Char stared at the pale blue and the silver blue. HMMM.

Juno had a permanent grin plastered on her face. There was no taking it away. He just had that affect on her. She took a deep breath and looked down at their project.

Giggling, Juno replied, "Well, that may be, but I could hurt you too, you know." In more ways than one she was sure but she never wanted to find out. She smiled, "That could be fun. I'm up for it whenever." She gave him a wink and quickly looked back at their project.

"True. I love all the old movies they came up with from the comics. They were pretty great!" She paused listening to his next comment. "Well, I mean the Captain was hot...so....," she giggled, "Ah! Storm is awesome. I always wanted to be her growing up...or Black Widow." She said wagging her eyebrows and giggling.

Juno smiled up at him. She had never been complimented on her favorite color. He was just adorable. "Oh, that is a good color combination! We can make the outside of the crest silver and the center purple. And then we can draw the Swooping Evil over the crest and the house name under it. I think having swords on it is a good idea too, because you know, Protectors should have swords." Cuz, like, duh. Protectors.

She quickly sketched out something, it was pretty simple, but they could put more details into it once he could see what was in her brain. She pushed the paper in front of him, "Like this, but more detailed obviously, and colored. What do you think?"

SPOILER!!: House

House Name: Altor
House Animal: Swooping Evil
House Colors: Purple and Grey
Characteristics for its members: Protectors, believe in fighting for justice, kind, caring, will help anyone in need.
House Crest:

Well, if it wasn't Santa.

Rosalyn smiled as he entered the classroom, wondering which one of her colleagues was playing out the part. Whoever it was, he did an amazing job of it. Curiously she watched him give out the grams, before handing one over to her. Immediately she knew who it was from and not just by the two candy canes forming a heart.

Catching a glance at his face, she saw the blue eyes and immediately knew who it was. Well, this called for some playful teasing later on. For the moment she read her message, turning slightly red. Well then. "Ten more minutes," she said, getting a hold of herself.

OOC: There are 24 hours left for the activity.

Leon grinned as she spoke and he leaned back in his chair to look at her for a moment. "I don't doubt it. " He knew she could hurt him in so many ways.. which was why part of him wanted to take his time and the other part of him didn't. Liking someone was so confusing!

He leaned forward again with a grin. "I love all the old movies as well, The Cap movies were pretty awesome as were the avengers.." He grinned at her as he decided to tease her a bit..."Ahhh so you think he's hot ehh? Well is that your type? Muscular? And wears a uniform?" He gently nudged her and then smiled.. "Well, Black Widow and Cap kissed in one of their movies. if I wanted to be like Cap.. you can be Black widow. " He said as he gently nudged her..

Leon listened to her speak and again he was amazed by her ideas.. she was so smart! "That sounds brilliant Juno, that's an excellent idea. " He said as he glanced down at her sketch and nodded..

"I love it! And the swords really add the perfect touch. " He said with a grin.

"...And unconscionably loyal." Because, yes, she agreed with those traits. They were solid, yet ambiguous enough to allow for more than one type of person. It was a firm belief that all different types could belong in any given House. Like... How intelligence could be found in more than just Ravenclaws. Bravery in more than just Gryffindors.... That type of thing.

Jotting the new information down with the other things, Liv took to adding a few more words. Words. All the words. Just things she personally felt about herself. Now, but more so before the "accident". Yep, totally calling that fiasco an accident. "What do you think?" The Gryffindor pushed her notebook closer to her cousin, seeking her approval. They were traits she felt would coincide well together, but also be fundamental enough to make some sense within the same person. Not that that was mandatory. As she thought before, many different types resided in the same House. Especially here at Hogwarts.

"we need to figure out a name and animal."

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House Name:
Founder: Olivia Phillips and Katerina Delgado
Animal:
Characteristics: Independent, open-minded, and unconscionably loyal. Enthusiastic, idealistic, and creative, but also quiet and kind; flexible, yet favoring common sense and and practicality. Aesthetic appreciation. (ISFP, INFP, ENFP, ESFP)
Colors: Hot pink and chartreuse
Crest:

Create their own house? Now that sounded like fun. But what would her house be called? What would it's purpose be? Hmm.. She stared at the blank piece of parchment in front of her for a few moments and became stuck. Writer's block perhaps? More like imagination block. Ergh. Creativity don't fail me now, she thought as she tapped her quill against the desk rather quickly. Once the Professor announced only ten minutes before the end of activity, Olivia's eyes widened. OOH! She had an idea.

Riddles. Enigmas. Perfect. What was the latin word for riddle again? Was there even a word for it? Enigma was close to Aenigma, right? She'd have to brush up on her latin. Now riddles... She liked them a lot. Now what creature best represented or enjoyed riddles. A Sphinx. Hmm colours..



She looked down at her piece of parchment and grinned at it. Perfect.

He could hurt her in many ways too. Especially with him being a seventh year. If they did start a relationship, that would be extremely hard for her; To be here at school next year without him. But she wouldn't think about that now. They hadn't even had Christmas vacation yet. She gave him a small smile and said, "And I don't doubt you could kick my butt just as easily." She chuckled, pretending they were talking about fighting and not breaking each others hearts.

She loved it when he leaned toward her like that. It made her desire to kiss him even worse, so she leaned back a little. She had to behave! "The Cap movies are some of my favorites!" Because the Captain was hot as hell! She grinned ruefully, "Possibly. I like muscular guys. Grey eyes....brown hair. Uniforms optional." She tried not to laugh at her own comment, nudging him back. And then he said...that. She blushed, and replied, "I dunno...I think I'd want to be Agent Peggy Carter. Then I'd get more than just one kiss." She bit her bottom lip and grinned, looking back at their project.

"Perfect!" She beamed. "Let's finish it up then." She handed him a pencil and let him sketch out the crest.

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Finally they finished the crest. It was looking Pretty fantastic. "This looks awesome, Leon! Great job!" She quickly and neatly wrote out the house name, animal, colors, and characteristics on the back of their crest. It turned out perfectly.

SPOILER!!: House info and Crest

House Name: Altor
House Animal: Swooping Evil
House Colors: Purple and Grey
Characteristics for its members: Protectors, believe in fighting for justice, kind, caring, will help anyone in need.
House Crest: Crest

Leon looked over at her and he gently squeezed her hand, "I could.. but I won't. " He said softly as he could almost catch a touch of vulnerability or sadness in her eyes. He too felt the same when he thought about leaving her.. But even though she would be in school next term, he was of age.. they had mirrors to help out and he could apparate anywhere..

Though for the first time since he had met her doubts started to creep into his mind.. Not about her of course! But of him hurting her..

But could he walk away from this?

He smiled a bit as she leaned back and he too leaned back a bit as well.. It probably wouldn't do well to have their first kiss in the middle of class! Also he didn't want to get detention!! An easy smile graced his lips as she spoke and he ran a hand through his hair... "Well it looks like I might fit that bill.. and Agent Carter hmm? I'd like that. " He would forever be a Steve/Peggy shipper!

He grinned as she handed him a pencil and he got to work, filling in her rough sketch and then drawing it out carefully.,

He grinned as he finished and looked over at her. "Yeah, it does look good. I think we are finished Lady. " He said with a warm smile.

With her colours and mascot chosen, Char went ahead and started working on drawing her crest. Some gentle swirls on there and some pretty intricate designs in the silvery background and then most importantly, the flying fish. This was kind of fun to draw, actually! She was hoping that if anyone else saw it they would not hate the idea of being part of her house, that was the goal.

This was where she took a bit of artistic liberty and deviated a bit from the design styles of the other house crests, but that was allowed, right? She wanted hers to look elegant....

.... after another few minutes, she was done and just in time, too! Char took a quick look over her work then made sure it was all finished up and ready to hand in. Done!

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name: Kettleburn
animal mascot: Flying Fish.
colours: white and silver blue
characteristics: Kindness, never giving up, true loyalty (no betrayal or being out for yourself!), selflessness, athleticism, creativity, honesty, supporting others in their goals, willingness to experience life and try everything once (except if it goes against the other characteristics)! Standing up for what you believe in. Reaching for the stars, getting out of 'deep water' (TROUBLE) when you need to! Flying high! Believing in the impossible!
crest: [ooc: uploaded as attachment due to image hosting not working! let me know if it doesn't work for you]

Henry was a little bit at a loss for this activity. He had been rather stunned by the earlier argument regarding archaic and stereotypical ideas. He really disliked stereotypes that often surrounded the houses, including his own, and he especially disliked them when they made people feel bad about themselves or were used as insults. And that's exactly what seemed to have happened. But even if he thought that the Ravenclaw prefect had been wrong, Henry couldn't help but feel a little bad for her too. It'd probably be awful for an entire class to turn on you and make you run out of the room.

Maybe he really was the Puffiest Puff.

But all of it had been rather off-putting and it made him think a little different about creating a fifth house. Sure, he had a lot of house pride and loved being a Hufflepuff, but he wondered, even if it was just for this activity that he didn't really feel like doing, what Hogwarts would be like without a house system at all. Would there be fewer stereotypes and less of people being accused of being evil or too nice or reckless or nerds?

Maybe he would fail this assignment, but given that he had spent the majority of the class daydreaming and staring out the window, he might as well start writing something rather than turn nothing in at all. And considering that was where his mind was going, the likelihood of him thinking up something better at this point was fairly slim. So he began writing his thoughts before class came to a close.

SPOILER!!: Henry's parchment

House Name: none, just Hogwarts
House Founders: the founders of Hogwarts - Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin
House Mascot: Chimaera, because it's a combination of animals
House Colors: Black and White as they balance each other... or rainbow since it includes all colors
House Characteristics: everyone accepted into Hogwarts is welcome

Oliver looked up from his notes when the professor started explaining the activity for the day and he just kind of wanted to slip out of class without her noticing. He enjoyed Professor Newton and the way she taught, but he had never been creative, so how in the world was he supposed to think up a whole house AND make a crest for it? HOW???

Once people started getting into groups to work together, Ollie made the decision to work alone. He didn't want to be that person in a group who makes the other person do all the work. He hated that person. If he couldn't get the work done, then he wouldn't get the grade...plus, he didn't really need HoM for the classes he needed at uni, so it wasn't too big of a deal.

After a few minutes of just staring at his paper, he started writing things down about himself that he felt didn't fit into Slytherin...or any of the other houses, really.

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Ollie Traits

• Shy
• Procrastinator
• Athletic
• Introverted

He looked at this list and tried to figure out how all of those things even fit into a house.... Maybe if he just started with a house name and worked down the list from there, he could figure out how to work all of the house traits in. So first he needed a name...but he didn't want to use his last name, because other Finch's weren't like him, so it wouldn't make much sense really. Oliver wanted something better. He thought about other important people in the wizarding world and finally came up with a name.

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Name: Lovebottom (named after Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom)
Founder: Oliver James Finch
Mascot: Hare
Colors: Purple and Gold
Traits: Anyone who doesn't quite fit into the other four houses. All personalities welcome, as long as they love the house mascot and the house colors.
Crest: (something like this and with a cute, cuddly hare in the center)

Oliver looked over the list, making sure there wasn't anything else in his brain that wanted to come out. Once he was sure he was finished, he went up to Professor Newton's desk and turned it in. He just hoped she didn't hate what he had written down.

Brent thought he had it all planned out now. He looked at his notes.

House: The Aviators
Why? This is a house for people who love broom sports, like Quidditch or Quodpot. You have to be really good at it, too. None of this 'Oh, I like it, but I can't really play' stuff. This is the house for the hardcore athletes!
Animal: Bird, no idea which one yet
Colors: Blue and yellow. Blue for the sky and yellow for the color of the Sun
Crest:

The only thing he had to do was plan out the crest, but he already had ideas in his head for that. First off, he had to include the bird, and he wanted one with a really wide wingspan. He thought it would look cool that way. He wasn't really peculiar about what kind of bird it was either. Just a bird would be fine. Then he would have to make sure it included the house colors. That was a given.

Juno looked up at him with that comment, giving him a small smile, and gave his hand a squeeze back. He really was one of the sweetest guys she had ever met. "Good... because I wont either." She took a breath, smiled, and exhaled. How could they be so serious about each other if they weren't even a couple...yet. She wouldn't say they weren't anything. They were definitely something, and she really liked where it was going.

She noticed his eyes looked a little sad as well and was wondering if he was thinking the same thing she was. But they quickly changed back to the happy guy.

She grinned hugely. He more than fit the bill. He was absolutely perfect for her and she knew it. But she wouldn't tell him that...not yet anyway. She faked surprise, "Oh, my! You might just fit that description. Or maybe I was just describing you." She grinned, leaning against the table and resting her chin on her hand. "Peggy and Steve were perfect for each other." She grinned and waggled her eyebrows at him.

Juno watched as he perfected her rough sketch for the crest. He was a very skilled artist and wished she could see how he would draw her.

She grinned and wondered why he always called her lady. That would have to be a conversation for another time. "It's perfect! I will put our names on it and turn it in." Juno quickly wrote out there names on the parchment as the House founders, and then rolled up the parchment, tying it with a string.

She walked up to the professor and handed over their parchment. "Thanks you for the fun lesson, Professor Newton." She laid their house project on her desk and walked back to Leon.

She sat back down and started packing up. They couldn't leave until the professor told them they could. "So...want to walk with me?" She asked shyly, knowing he would probably say yes.

SPOILER!!: House info and Crest

House Name: Altor
House Founders: Juno Darcy and Leon Kennedy
House Animal: Swooping Evil
House Colors: Purple and Grey
Characteristics for its members: Protectors, believe in fighting for justice, kind, caring, will help anyone in need.
House Crest: Crest

Abey thought of perhaps about a million different animals that he could have drawn on his house crest. The fact that he was doing the whole process backwards made it a little bit tricky actually, because maybe it might have been slightly easier to pick an animal based on the house traits or name. Right now, Abey was trying to decide between a fish (because there were no fishy water mascots yet), a fox (because he liked drawing foxes), and a bear (because bears were big and cool).

In the end, it was the 'big and cool' argument that won actually, and so Abey had started drawing one on his house crest, but a more realistic looking bear than Gryffindor had of a lion. The bear was stood on its hind legs as well, though, raising its paws in the air with its claws out, and it was... roaring? Did bears roar? Or did they yell? ... Well, whatever they did, that's actually what his bear was doing now. It was FEARSOME, but Abey knew that actually deep down it was a lovely bear with a heart as soft as its fur, even though it had big teeth.

He spent the longest time EVER drawing the bear in as much detail as he could, leaning closer and closer to his parchment as he did so, until he suddenly realised - right around the time that he finished adding the detail - that his nose was only an inch away from touching his drawing.

Abey blinked, and straightened up again, glancing around at the other students before looking back at his work. He spent a moment cleaning it up, and adjusting a few details, before deciding he was done with that part. Nice!

... Less nice was the fact that he was running out of things to waste time with actually. But MORE nice again was the fact that now it was a time for COLOURS. The BEST THING IN THE WORLD. ACTUALLY. He had already decided what colours, too, and had done so while he was drawing.

It was obvious, really: PURPLE and GREEN. They were two of Abey's favourite colours (though he was very fond of pink, too, and actually he didn't have a single ultimate favourite because there were just so many, but he DID have favourite combinations) but that wasn't the reason for his decision. As obsessed with colours as Abey was, he had learnt a lot about them in his life, and once had been told - perhaps by his father, but Abey couldn't remember for sure actually - that purple and green together at the same time meant MAGIC, and ALL MAGIC, the good and the bad. Abey loved magic, and so he loved purple and green. ALSO, what better combination for a House in a MAGICAL school?

Of course, bears were neither purple nor green actually, were they? So the bear was going to be a black bear, and the background and frilly bits on the outside were going to be purple and green, and the banner at the bottom and the suit of armour helmet at the top was going to be silver.

With his coloured pencils selected (he always carried his art things in his school bag obviously actually) Abey got to work making his house crest as pretty as could be, and just as intricate and exciting as the proper actual house badges.

Seriously?

That drama was going to be brought up into class when it was soooooo long ago. Granted this was history of magic but students were making it personal for the here and now and not being nice to their fellow classmates. Cassie stayed quiet, letting the professor handle things but she certainly didn't agree with anything negative that was being said on either side. She already had to fight the urge to roll her eyes or say something that wasn't necessary.

Thank Merlin it was activity time which the fourth year hoped would bring everything back to some calmness. She didn't doubt Professor Newton might have as well. Cass's disposition certainly improved as what they would be doing was vocalized. Making their own houses...cool! She could pretend to be the fifth founder of Hogwarts, already knowing she'd be more inclusive in her ideas. Civil rivalry was fun, but no centuries-long feuds thank you.

And orange! Orange had to be one of the house colors as it was her favorite. Debating on some of the other color options available to compliment it. Nothing too drastic. She almost picked a shade of blue like her real house before opting for red and white. Not quite Gryffindor but still fun and energetic like fire. And then she had another idea.

A phoenix!

A phoenix could be the house mascot!

Janelle was really starting to believe that there was something in the prefects' water, especially the Ravenclaw prefects. Yikes......too much drama. She tried to focus on the task at hand because their activity was going to require a lot of thought. They had to come up with a fifth Hogwarts house? Hmmmmm. What would she deal with first? It would probably be best to start with a general theme, then move on to qualities and a name.

Janelle used her quill to jot down some notes. Basically whatever popped into her head went down on the parchment. She would have to make sense of it all later. Janelle stopped for a moment and looked down at her random thoughts. Who could make sense of that? She started to wonder if she should have paired up with someone for this activity. Too late for that now.

After staring at her notes for a long time, some thoughts started to come together, sort of. It seemed a little off the wall, but after checking her watch, she knew she had to go with it. Taking out a fresh piece of parchment, Janelle began to write her final draft.



Finally, Janelle put down her quill. She looked over what she had written. Satisfied with her effort, she picked up her parchment and headed for the professor's desk. She placed it on the desk and said, ""I'm finished professor." Then Janelle returned to her seat.

Everything got way out of hand, really quick. A few people seemed to be backing her up- well, of course all the Slytherins had banded together- but Kitty wasn't backing down, going so far as to tell Sinead that she was saying murder was okay?! Who was this girl? Nobody went around talking about Ravenclaw like that!

She wanted to respond again, but everyone all over the room seemed to be talking at once and she couldn't get a word in edgeways. Instead, she settled for glaring at Kitty with crossed arms and flinty eyes, jaw set in triumph when some random older Gryffindor girl quoted her. Yeah- take that, stupid Ravenclaw.
Even after her attempt at restraint, Kitty's next outburst was too much for her. She rose to her feet almost unconciously, leaning over her desk towards the other girl.
"You're so stupid! My MUM is a muggle! I'd rather be in Slytherin no matter what, than Ravenclaw, if it's full of people like you!"

Unfortunately, her words were drowned out by the general clamor and next thing, Kitty had stormed out of the room like a stupid baby. Good riddance. People always gave up arguing when they knew they were wrong, didn't they?

She took advantage of the confusion following Kitty's departure to sit back down and act like nothing had happened, submitting to the professor's somewhat ineffective attempts to regain control of the class. Eventually everyone settled down, though, and Sinead set herself to the task at hand, weird though this assignment was. Why would she want to make up a new house, when she was already in the best one?

Well. Maybe Slytherin could do with a few little improvements.

She began to jot down some ideas- thinking of a crest seemed kind of stupid, again, not into art, but actually it was kind of fun to think of the traits she'd like to apply to her very own Hogwarts House. She was already imagining which other students would be allowed in... Definitely Natalia. And Noelle, she was nice and liked Transfiguration. She kind of didn't know the other students in her year well enough to decide about them, but unless they grew up quite a lot, she didn't they'd be allowed. Zoryn and Carlton were both so childish. Kitty was definitely NOT going to be a member.

She didn't pay too much notice to Professor Newton's regular time warnings- she wasn't going to need the whole period, anyway. She already pretty much had her plans written out. A name was slightly trickier to think of than the aspects of the students, and she wasn't sure she wanted any animal to represent her really, but then it didn't matter too much. It was just one assignment. She put the last touches on her neat copy, the house crest not artistic but drawn with military precision, and then looked up and around to see if she should hand it in yet or what.

Name: Wenlock
Animal: Silver cat
Colours: Teal and Silver
Characteristics: Intelligent (must pass a test to enter the house because there are still stupid people in Ravenclaw), hard working, successful, polite (don't make noise at night when other people are trying to sleep or tell other people they are evil and want to kill Muggles), think before they speak, good at Transfiguration and Arithmancy, have interests which aren't just Quidditch
Crest: A silver-outlined shield with a teal background and a silver cat at the centre.

Okay, maybe the colours were a tiny bit similar to Slytherin, but she couldn't help being loyal. The animal was fairly easy- that was just her cat, Ptolemy- but the name was difficult to think of. The real founders had just named their houses after themselves, of course, but nobody could have a house called Dance, that was clearly ridiculous. Instead, she thought she could just name it after a witch she admired- hence Bridget Wenlock, one of the most famous Arithmancers of all time. That was somebody who would have been worthy of Sinead's house, she was confident.

Looking up at, and giving Liv a smile when she gave, more traits and wrote them down. "That looks, perfect." Giving her another smile. She had to admit that this would be the best house of all of them. But it was only because they were working on it.

Now names and animals. Thinking of animals or creatures that had some of the characteristics that they had on the paper. "Some kind of water animal? Unicorn? Too fuzzy cuddly. Oh What about a hummingbird?" They were independent, and not too cute and cuddly. As for a name, she was still trying to figure out something that would work.

Abey was FINISHED and also he was SO SO PROUD of his house crest. It looked quite pretty actually even though it wasn't quite like how he had pictured in his head. But that was okay he supposed because basically all of his art never turned out to look like exactly as he had imagined it would look or how he wanted it to look, and also this was only for a class and he'd done it real quickly and it wasn't something he would be sticking up on his wall or anything.

Except for the fact that he wasn't actually finished but now had sort of done all the extra stuff, which meant he could no longer put off the actual work. And actually, in actual fact, Abey had sort of realised that if he DIDN'T do all the writing stuff now, and just handed in the art part... well, that was sort of wrong, wasn't it? Because this bit was supposed to be the stuff they did last. Unless he maybe pretended like his other sheet of parchment had got lost or something on the way to handing it in, or even AFTER handing it in.

If he was going to do it that way, then he would be finished, but also Abey felt a tiny little bit sad about if he was to do that, because actually he had started to have a few ideas about the house traits and everything like that, and maybe if he handed those in he wouldn't do quite so terribly on his work for once. But... but.......... buuuuuuuut........... things.

Gnawing on his lip, Abey fiddled with the edge of his parchment, rolling it up like he was going to turn it into a scroll, and looked around at those nearby. Perhaps if he could get the attention or Rula or Junia... or maybe even Théo... then they could help him out. Or any friend, for that matter. He looked around at those sat nearby, trying to catch the eye of someone who might be able to do him a tiiiiiiiny tiny eency weency favour maybe actually probably perhaps. And then keep it a secret. Maybe. Actually. Probably. Perhaps.

Sketch, sketch, sketch. She had the perfect crest in mind, which just required a bit of patience, but once she finished with the shading and coloring, she set her quill down to admire her handiwork. Yes, this was the perfect crest and would embody nicely on what being in Pattory was all about. Or was Hatlar a better name? But then again, Hogwarts Houses were based off last names, and Hatlar was the combination of two first names, so combining two surnames would make more sense, in keeping with the traditions. On the other hand, what were traditions and rules if not meant to be bent slightly? Though she did like the sound of Pattory slightly better.

Now all that was left to decide on an animal. Was there an animal that embodied friendship? She knew otters slept holding hands, but that didn't seem to connect with friend to Skylar. Dolphins! They were playful and gently and friendly, basically the perfect representative creature.

Text Cut: Notes

House Name: Pattory (Or Skyriet? Hatlar?)
House Animal: Dolphin
House Colors: Green and Yellow Teal
Characteristics for its members: You must believe in friendships and happily ever afters and creating your own way. Be a legacy, in terms of at least one parent must have been friends with the parent of another member. You must know how to have fun and how to celebrate a balance between work and play
House Crest: *see attached*

And with that, she was done!

Suddenly, idea after idea started coming to Brent. After he had decided on an animal and some colors, the rest just started falling into place. He took out a fresh piece of parchment and began writing up something official to hand to the professor.

The name of my house is The Aviators. We're named that, because we are the kids who excel at flying and playing sports on brooms. It's mainly focused on Quodpot and Quidditch, but anybody who flies well or plays sports on brooms well is a likely member.

The colors are sky blue and yellow after the color of the sky and the color of the sun. Our house mascot is a bird with a really wide wingspan that looks like it is flying free in the skies.

Our house crest represents all this. It's a shield featuring the house colors. The bird is on the front of it, and there are a wide pair of wings coming out from each side of the shield. A ribbon is draped across the front of the shield, and the house name is in bright, yellow letters across the front.

Satisfied with his write-up, Brent began taking out the materials he would need to create the crest. He was going to fix the crest to the piece of parchment he'd done the write-up on. He also took out a second piece of parchment and a set of color-changing quills. This was going to look awesome!

A hummingbird! Liv's eyes actually lit up, in total agreement with this animal choice. These types of birds were so symbolic.... A bit of trivia. "Did you know the hummingbird's wings beat in the pattern of the infinity symbol?" Katty probably already knew that, but... Well, Olivia wanted to repeat it, anyway.

Already sketching out something at the bottom of her notebook page, the blonde fussed with this hot pink color. It wasn't going to work with the overall design, so... she needed to do something different, color-wise. Maybe a pretty blue. Blue looked like wind, right? A green and blue. Those were very Earthy, right? And the hummingbird, alone, was representative of so much; like the sun, life, creation, and inspiration. So, she really just wanted to make sure she was featuring their creature in the right way. Also, the Gryffindor would have to thank Rooney for his small sketching lessons. Liv was starting to get pretty good at free-handing some shapes.

"What do you think of this?" Again, Olivia shoved her notebook over to her cousin, eager (dare we say) to get her opinion on the emblem. She really wanted them to get a good grade on this project... Mostly, because of the drama and wanting to prove that they weren't closed-minded. "Think Professor Newton will like it?"

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House Name: Hummingbird
Founder: Olivia Phillips and Katerina Delgado
Animal: Hummingbird
Characteristics: Independent, open-minded, and unconscionably loyal. Enthusiastic, idealistic, and creative, but also quiet and kind; flexible, yet favoring common sense and and practicality. Aesthetic appreciation. (ISFP, INFP, ENFP, ESFP)
Colors: Hot pink Chartreuse and Bahama Blue
Crest: {see photocut below}

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